COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSES When we publish something we have made or created on the web, like photos taken with our mobile phone or a short movie we have uploaded on Youtube, we are the owners of our product, no matter how precious, trivial, artistic or superficial it may seem; This is called “copyrights”, in the legal terminology. Owning a product means that we are solely responsible for taking decisions which concern the way other people can use it. For example, we can let others download and modify a photo we have taken, redistribute it, use it for commercial purposes, or just rate it. Moreover, we can just publish it and make it clear that others can only view it. Put simply, we have the exclusive ownership by law, as is the case with everything else regarding private property. Consequently, if, for example we need music for a video we aspire to make public, we can use:
The Public domain material, which is copyright free, because legal rights have either expired or don’t exist.
For additional information, have a look at these sites:
2. The material published under creative commons licenses. These licenses are provided by the creators of any published material, giving other people certain rights related to the use of their product. For instance, a musician could allow fans of her/his music to freely share, copy or mix a musical composition as they wish. You can also read about the licenses in Greek.
Important note: If a work you intend to use is not in the public domain, the owner has not given you written permissionor it is not under Creative commons license, just do not use it.
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COPYRIGHTS AND LICENSESWhen we publish something we have made or created on the web, like photos taken with our mobile phone or a short movie we have uploaded on Youtube, we are the owners of our product, no matter how precious, trivial, artistic or superficial it may seem; This is called “copyrights”, in the legal terminology.
Owning a product means that we are solely responsible for taking decisions which concern the way other people can use it. For example, we can let others download and modify a photo we have taken, redistribute it, use it for commercial purposes, or just rate it. Moreover, we can just publish it and make it clear that others can only view it. Put simply, we have the exclusive ownership by law, as is the case with everything else regarding private property.
Consequently, if, for example we need music for a video we aspire to make public, we can use:
- The Public domain material, which is copyright free, because legal rights have either expired or don’t exist.
For additional information, have a look at these sites:2. The material published under creative commons licenses. These licenses are provided by the creators of any published material, giving other people certain rights related to the use of their product.
For instance, a musician could allow fans of her/his music to freely share, copy or mix a musical composition as they wish. You can also read about the licenses in Greek.
Important note: If a work you intend to use is not in the public domain, the owner has not given you written permission or it is not under Creative commons license, just do not use it.
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